S.B. No. 2075
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to public school compliance with dyslexia screening,
  reading instrument requirements, and a requirement that a school
  district notify certain parents or guardians of a program providing
  students with reading disabilities the ability to borrow audiobooks
  free of charge.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 7.028(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  Except as provided by Section 28.006, 29.001(5),
  29.010(a), 38.003, or 39.057, the agency may monitor compliance
  with requirements applicable to a process or program provided by a
  school district, campus, program, or school granted charters under
  Chapter 12, including the process described by Subchapter F,
  Chapter 11, or a program described by Subchapter B, C, D, E, F, H, or
  I, Chapter 29, or Subchapter A, Chapter 37, [or Section 38.003,] and
  the use of funds provided for such a program under Subchapter C,
  Chapter 42, only as necessary to ensure:
               (1)  compliance with federal law and regulations;
               (2)  financial accountability, including compliance
  with grant requirements; and
               (3)  data integrity for purposes of:
                     (A)  the Public Education Information Management
  System (PEIMS); and
                     (B)  accountability under Chapters 39 and 39A.
         SECTION 2.  Section 28.006, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsections (g-2) and (l) to read as follows:
         (g-2)  In accordance with a notification program developed
  by the commissioner by rule, a school district shall notify the
  parent or guardian of each student determined, on the basis of a
  screening under Section 38.003 or other basis, to have dyslexia or a
  related disorder, or determined, on the basis of reading instrument
  results, to be at risk for dyslexia or other reading difficulties,
  of the program maintained by the Texas State Library and Archives
  Commission providing students with reading disabilities the
  ability to borrow audiobooks free of charge.
         (l)  The agency by rule shall develop procedures designed to
  allow the agency to:
               (1)  effectively audit and monitor and periodically
  conduct site visits of all school districts to ensure that
  districts are complying with this section;
               (2)  identify any problems school districts experience
  in complying with this section; and
               (3)  develop reasonable and appropriate remedial
  strategies to address school district noncompliance and ensure the
  purposes of this section are accomplished.
         SECTION 3.  Section 38.003, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
  follows:
         (c)  Subject to Subsection (c-1), the [The] State Board of
  Education shall adopt any rules and standards necessary to
  administer this section.
         (c-1)  The agency by rule shall develop procedures designed
  to allow the agency to:
               (1)  effectively audit and monitor and periodically
  conduct site visits of all school districts to ensure that
  districts are complying with this section, including the program
  approved by the State Board of Education under this section;
               (2)  identify any problems school districts experience
  in complying with this section, including the program approved by
  the State Board of Education under this section; and
               (3)  develop reasonable and appropriate remedial
  strategies to address school district noncompliance and ensure the
  purposes of this section are accomplished.
         SECTION 4.  This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
  school year.
         SECTION 5.  The Texas Education Agency is required to
  implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature
  appropriates money specifically for that purpose.  If the
  legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
  purpose, the Texas Education Agency may, but is not required to,
  implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations
  available for that purpose.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2075 passed the Senate on
  April 29, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2075 passed the House on
  May 17, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 6,
  one present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor